How to retrieve a lookup attribute from Plugin in CRM 2011

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In CRM 2011 we could use EntityReference to retrieve the lookup attribute from a Plugin.

Consider that we have a Contact lookup named as 'new_contact'. In the plugin we could use the following code to retrieve the lookup.

Code snippets:

CRM 2011:

EntityReference
contactlookup = (EntityReference)targetEntity.Attributes["new_contact"];


CRM 4:

Lookup contactlookup = (Lookup)targetEntity["new_contact"];